{"id":187,"date":"2012-04-17T15:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/stories-on-innovation-for-your-classroom-with-solidworks-users-who-are-born-to-design"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:01:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:01:37","slug":"stories-on-innovation-for-your-classroom-with-solidworks-users-who-are-born-to-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/04\/stories-on-innovation-for-your-classroom-with-solidworks-users-who-are-born-to-design.html","title":{"rendered":"Stories on innovation for your classroom with SolidWorks users who are Born to Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20163044eb03b970d.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/a><br \/>When I was teaching, seaching for innovation stories for students was a challange.&#0160; Now SolidWorks has made it easier.&#0160; Join the world&#39;s most innovative SolidWorks users on Born to Design<\/p>\n<p>As SolidWorks CEO Bertrand Sicot said at SolidWorks Word 2012, we are all united by the idea of design. From engineers to designers to part-time inventors, our desire to discover inspires us to build products the world didn&#39;t even know it needed.<\/p>\n<p>We hear about SolidWorks user designing amazing things every day, and we decided it was time to give some of them a bigger stage. On our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/innovations\/electric-motorcycle.htm?scid=sm_bl_btdlaunch\" target=\"_self\">Born to Design website<\/a>, we honor the people who are born to design and the products they were destined to create.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20163044eb03b970d.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Born to Design SolidWorks\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20163044eb03b970d-600wi.jpg\" title=\"Born to Design SolidWorks\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first customers featured are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/innovations\/electric-motorcycle.htm?scid=sm_bl_btdlaunch\" target=\"_self\">Motoczysz<\/a>, who have created the world&#39;s most advanced&#8211;and fastest&#8211;electric motorcycle, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/innovations\/wind-propelled-ships.htm?scid=sm_bl_btdlaunch\" target=\"_self\">SkySails<\/a>, who are using the power of the wind to reduce the amount of energy consumed in transoceanic shipping.<\/p>\n<p>But these aren&#39;t the only customers we&#39;re featuring. Every few months, we&#39;ll update the site with others such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/innovations\/coming-soon-humanoid-robotics.htm?scid=sm_bl_btdlaunch\" target=\"_self\">Aldebaran Robotics<\/a>, and we&#39;ll also include additional content from all of the customers. So be sure to add the site to your bookmarks after you&#39;ve checked it out, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/borntodesign\" target=\"_self\">follow Born to Design on Twitter<\/a> for news and updates. We&#39;ll also feature behind-the-scenes videos, stories about other users and more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/solidworks\" target=\"_self\">the SolidWorks Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/innovations\/electric-motorcycle.htm?scid=sm_bl_btdlaunch\" target=\"_self\">Visit the Born to Design website now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was teaching, seaching for innovation stories for students was a challange.&#0160; Now SolidWorks has made it easier.&#0160; Join the world&#39;s most innovative SolidWorks users on Born to Design As SolidWorks CEO Bertrand Sicot said at SolidWorks Word 2012,<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/04\/stories-on-innovation-for-your-classroom-with-solidworks-users-who-are-born-to-design.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015,4344,5211],"tags":[3934,4781,3940,4116,4783,4784,3931,4782],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","category-sustainability","category-technology-2","tag-3d","tag-classroom","tag-design","tag-electric","tag-innovation","tag-inspiration","tag-solidworks","tag-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}